Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-09

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There is u nohie congruits between
culture and goodness, but modem life is
us q revival OF pagan culture,
cold, goddess. A very large
proportion of oar effective colleges have
been planted expressly IN the interest of
the church, have been fostered by the
churches-often times have been con-
trolled and administered by them, 1t
is only of late that secular colleges,
secular in their aim, support, methods
and management. have come in any con-
siderable numbers or strength. Colleges
have beer planted in the interest OF the
state, on the ground that the welfare of
the whole people is promoted by q diff
fused intelligence. The buiwarks OF
popular government, end SO Of popular
liberty are found in the capacity of the
governed TO comprehend the problem of
modern society and to discover and ap-
ply the principles Of a sound public
policy. All this Is we'll. And il %intelli-'
genoe is needn't TO the state much more
is it useful to the church For a NATIONAL
faith hes been the conquerlng faith, and
piety (not subjsat to learning, not de-
pendent on it but hand in hand with it,
has shown its greatest power. But faith
is O far greater help to learning than
learning can be to faith. The church
does not need the college half SO much
as the college needs the church. We do
not pause here to say that our christian
colleges are far more economically man
aged than secular Institutions, that a
little money goes much farther, that
voluntarism in education. just as IN
charity and in religion, is far more effec-
tive than state control and management,
nor yet that the prodact Of our
christian colleges, measured by
the standard of secularism,
surpasses that of the few colleges where
religion influences are kept out ss much
as possible, although they cannot in q
christian land be wholly suppressed. III
has been the saving of the most success
ful state university that it has
been allowed in come large
degree to give scope to those
| godly men who have been at its head
| who have believed in God. tho bible snd
the church. Harvard and Yale we're con
stituted to raise mp a learned ministry
They We're created because the church
had need of them. The development
of education in this country, if | read /.
right, shows nothing clearer than thai
the college of to day needs the church
needs religion, need ell that grand sweer
of motive and inspiration which is draw
from wells deeper than philosophy
deeper than patriotism, deeper thar
philanthrorhy. The prophetic name o
the savior of men that name which EN-
phasiDg his conservation as above hi
dominion and his work, appears twice
in the legend of your college seal. This
college needs the presence and the power
of the ancinted one, far more than ths
christian households of this expanding
state, and all its churches, can need III
stimulating educational influences.
For yon VIII not suppose .hat I an
turning the college into a prayer meet
ing, nor making it a propoganda, nor
churchly pnppet. If there be any thin,
unwholesome in education 1t is to sub
stitute manners for morals, and creed TO
character, and worship (so.called) TO
honest hard work, and praying (so.calted
for honest thinking. The church i
primarily for the heart, and it's teaohin,
is unto godliness-The college is prim
arily for the head, and it's recognition o
the heart is as of something nobler thar
intellect, something to be served by th,
intellect, receiving back again peace
and power. The college does not realiz'
itself till it becomes ~interpentrated Will
not the letter, but the spirit of tk,
gospel. God forbid that this oolleg,
ever 1.-THE the mint and anis,
of the sects. GOD forbid tina,
Catholics, or Hebrews, or Buddhlsts eve
| find here no2eritabIeDeas or intolerance
God forbid that this college eyer ceas,
to be profoundly, evangelically chris
tian, without ostension, without bigotry
but uncompromising in it's modes
Loyalty to Christian truth.
If suoh be the college, I pass next 1,
inquire what can the college do: VIVA
ought it to do? What is it doing? M
doubt the first function of the college i:
instruction-that function which an En-
glish writer described assthat divine an
beautiful thing called teaching" Wher
Mr.. Cornell founded his university hi
declared his purpose and desire to found
an institntionsin which anyone ooHld b,
instructed IN any branch of learning. Blu
that is too ambitious and in the nature
| of things impossible. One of the newer
eastern universities has q post-graduat,
course called 1.-THE school of all science
| Onb i tlloh l. b6SCT E6hT0 HuyUuS
mention it except to laugh at 1t. Presl
dent Elliott, of Harvard, has pro-
posed that in universities every MAJ
should govern himself and choose hi
Town studies. But in the last analysis
every man does govern himself, and al
for choosing his own studies, he is Of
truly limited by the TINS table,, and ths
number of the courses of instruction
offered, and by his own abilities, and by
the inexorable twenty-four hours q day
in the largest college as in the smallest
Having considered what q college Ii
and what it can dol have proposed q
q third point of my address a considera
zion OF what q college needs. As we hav,
seen, Garfield said, q president and i
barn. Horace Mann said, scholars, VIZ
have, (no doubt) the things essentia
when we have these three, q teaching
force, scholars and o shelter. Sir Henry
Name has said there is no nobler gift tc
mankind than the endowment OF In
struction. Monies put to perpetual ust
Tor the dissemination OF learning and tht
education of the coming generation
guarded against %perversion and loss, con
stitute a monument more enduring
than bronze or marble and they fertilizt
the centuries through which they flow
unrestricted funds' has come to b.
almost o proverb at one of our colleges
so jealous is the president to secure gifts
which can be used for the general pur
poses OF the college, according to the
Immediate emergency. In new insti
tuition there is room equally for special
gifts and unrestricted funds. Every
donor may gratifiy his taste, follow his
OWE preference and be sure to meet the
ends Of true ~benevoience. The late MIR.